Cannabimovone synthesis

Antonio Echavarran and co-workers from ICIQ have reported in ACIE on the synthesis of cannabimovone.

 

ACIE paper

Precolibactin synthesis/structural revision

Seth Herzon and co-workers from Yale have reported in JACS on the synthesis of precolibactin. It’s another example of why total synthesis is important. But another interesting aspect about this natural product is that previous efforts used bioinformatics approaches to propose the thiazoline-thiazole chain – when in fact the natural product has a terminal cysteine appended where this thiazoline-thiazole chain was proposed to exist.

 

JACS paper

ACIE Journals of Interest 11/24/2015

Hao Xu’s lab in University of Georgia have reported on an iron-catalyzed diazidation of olefins.

Dorian Didier’s lab from LMU Munich reported on an interesting one-pot reaction.

Xiaoguang Lei’s lab from Peking University reported on the structural revision of aspergillomarasmine A.

Kilian Muniz’s lab from ICIQ reported on a hypervalent iodine approach to form 1,2-diacetates from olefins, asymmetrically.

Coibamide A synthesis

Wu Su and co-workers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have reported in JACS on the synthesis of coibamide A.

JACS paper

Mycothiazole synthesis

Karl Hale and colleague at the Queen’s University Belfast have reported in Organic Letters on the synthesis of mycothiazole.

OL paper

Yaku’amide synthesis

Masayuki Inoue and co-workers from the University of Tokyo have reported in JACS on the synthesis of yaku’amide.

JACS paper

Muironolide A synthesis

Armen Zakarian and co-workers have reported in JACS on the synthesis of muironolide A.

JACS paper

Hypodoratoxide structural revision through 13C-13C COSY

Jeroen Disckschat and co-workers at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn have reported in ACIE on a 13C-13C COSY method to elucidate the structure of hypodoratoxide.

ACIE paper

Uprolide F diacetate

Rongbiao Tong and colleague from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have reported in Organic Letters on the synthesis of uprolide F diacetate.

OL paper

Structure revision through total synthesis

Rosario Hernández-Galán and co-workers at Universidad de Cádiz in Spain have reported in JOC on the synthesis of cinbotolide and the revised structure through total synthesis looks completely different from the proposed macrocyclic structure.

JOC paper